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| Physical changes occur at the synapse during learning |
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| Communicates activities which may be rewarding through pleasure (neurotransmitter) |
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| Strengthens the connections at synapse during learning (neurotransmitter) |
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| Ability of the brain to change structure through experience |
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| Changes in the brain's neural structure due to growth and development |
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| Formation of synaptic connections during early development |
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| Organism is more responsive to specific experiences in certain times of development |
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| Elimination of unused synaptic connections |
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| Brain's neural structure will re-organise to compensate for damage |
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| When a neuron's pathway has been damaged, it must find replacement pathways |
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| Growth of new neurons, bushier connections on a neuron's dendrites |
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| Learning involes establishment and strengthening of neural connections "neurons that fire together, wire together" |
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| The long-lasting strengthening of synaptic connections, resulting in enhanced functions of neurons |
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| A relatively permanent change in behaviour as a result of experience |
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| An involuntary automatic response to a specific stimuli (not learning!) |
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| An inborn tendency to behave in a particular way: involves a sequence of responses. (not learning!) |
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| Behaviour occuring due to physical growth and development; orderly sequence of bodily development (not learning!) |
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| Chemical substance that carries information between neurons |
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| The site of communication between neurons, involves the gap, axon and dendrite |
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| The post-synaptic end of a neuron, 'receiver' |
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| The pre-synaptic end of a neuron, 'sender' |
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| The tiny space between the axon and dendrite |
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| Experience-expectant process |
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| The brain is preparing itself for experiences that are suspected to come during sensitive periods |
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| Important role in formation of semantic and episodic (declarative explicit) memories |
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| A cluster of neurons that is associated with learning and initiating fear responses. |
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| Neural impulse that contains the neural information that travels along the axon |
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